Free eye check-up, blood donation camps organised by social organisations

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Ludhiana, August 2

A week-long free eye check up camp for diabetics, being organised by Rotary International at Vasan Eye Care was inaugurated by Additional Deputy Commissioner Kuldip Singh. Speaking on the occasion, he made an appeal to the people and the diabetics in particular, to lead a healthy life style.

He stressed the need for health and eyes check-up at regular intervals.

Project director Dr Inderpreet Singh, chief retina specialist at Vasan Eye Care, said India was going to be the world capital of diabetes having the highest number of diabetic patients. “Diabetic eye disease in retinopathy is a major cause of irreversible vision loss and blindness in our country. The main cause is lack of awareness about regular eye check-up for every diabetic patient,” he said.

Dr Sanjeev Uppal, district secretary, Rotary International, gave detailed information about this special campaign. He said Rotarians were motivated to help people enjoy healthy eye sight.

“In this endeavour, we are planning to conduct free diabetes eye screening programme on first seven days of every month from August 2015 onwards at Vasan Eye Care centres at Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar and Bathinda.

Meanwhile, the Akhil Bhartiya Sri Sanghmeshwar Sewa Dal organised a blood donation camp on the occasion of 75th birth anniversary of Anant Shri Vibhushit Mahant Ganga Puri. Inaugurating the camp, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Congress MLA, (Ludhiana West), lauded the effort and emphasised that there was need for more such camps in the city. Two teams of doctors and supporting staff from Dayanand Medical College and Hospital and District Red Cross Society collected 75 units of blood from voluntary donors.

DK Puri, president and Dr Harish Verma, secretary of Sri Sanghmeshwar Sewa Dal said the body had been organising such camps at regular intervals as its commitment to the service of mankind. They said Punjab was far behind in voluntary blood donation in comparison to other states. For example, the state of Gujrat alone contributed 11 per cent of blood required in the country to save critically ill patients.